# ojs-mcp

> MCP server for the authenticated Open Journal Systems REST API (OJS 3.5/3.6)

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/ojs-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://mpasternak.github.io/ojs-mcp/
- repository: https://github.com/mpasternak/ojs-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.2.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: api, llm, mcp, ojs, open-journal-systems, pkp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:ojs-mcp

### Description (declared)

# ojs-mcp

[![tests](https://github.com/mpasternak/ojs-mcp/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/mpasternak/ojs-mcp/actions/workflows/tests.yml)
[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ojs-mcp.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/ojs-mcp/)
[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](https://github.com/mpasternak/ojs-mcp/blob/main/LICENSE)

An [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) server for the authenticated
REST API of [Open Journal Systems](https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/) (OJS
3.5/3.6). Connected to an MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and
others), it gives the model access to a journal's submissions, reviews,
issues, and editorial statistics — and, with writes explicitly enabled,
also to making editorial decisions, publishing, and editing metadata.

## Verified against a live OJS 3.5

Every tool has been exercised end-to-end against a real OJS 3.5.0-5
instance — the sixteen read tools, the `ojs_request` escape hatch, and all
five write tools. The write tools were checked by reading back the state
OJS actually ended up in, not by trusting the status code: an announcement
created, publication metadata edited, a submission carried from the
submission stage to production by two editorial decisions, then published
and unpublished again.

That instance is reproducible. [`demo/`](https://github.com/mpasternak/ojs-mcp/tree/main/demo)
holds the Docker stack, the fictional seed content, and the two scripts that
drive this server against it as a real MCP client — `check_api.py` for the
read tools, `check_writes.py` for the write tools.

Three things have **not** been exercised against a live server, and still
rest on what the PKP source (`pkp-lib`, `pkp/ojs`) says rather than on
observed behavior: login/password authentication
(`OJS_USERNAME`/`OJS_PASSWORD`), network mode (`OJS_MCP_TRANSPORT=http`),
and OJS 3.6 — only 3.5 has been tested. The unit test suite likewise runs
entirely against stubbed HTTP responses (via `respx`).

Write…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (0.779, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/ojs-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-12T08:20:33.281Z)

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